right|thumb|[[Yellowstone National Park in the United States was the first national park in the world.]]
This is a list of the number of national parks per nation, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Nearly 100 countries around the world have lands classified as a national park by this definition.
Note that this article links to list articles of national parks by country on Wikipedia in the "Country" column in the tables.
Africa
right|thumb|Mountain gorillas in [[Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda]]
thumbnail|Oryx in the [[Awash National Park, Ethiopia]]
right|thumb|[[Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia]]
thumb|Landscape of [[Serengeti National Park in Tanzania]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Oldest<br>(year)
! Number<br>of parks
! Total area<br /> km<sup>2</sup> !! Percentage <br />of country
|-
| Algeria || || 11 || 527,661.68 || 22.1%
|-
| Angola || || 8 || ||
|-
| Ascension Island || 2005 || 1 || ||
|-
| Benin || || 2 || ||
|-
| Botswana || 1968 || 4 || 56,258 || 9.67%
|-
| Burkina Faso || 1954 || 4 || ||
|-
| Burundi || 1934 || 3 || 1,014 || 3.6%
|-
| Cameroon || || 27 || ||
|-
| Cape Verde || || 1 || ||
|-
| Central African Republic || || 5 || ||
|-
| Chad || 1963 || 4 || 14,540 || 1.13%
|-
| Comoros || 2010 || 6 || 1,165.77 || 52.16%
|-
| Democratic Republic of the Congo || 1925|| 9 || ||
|-
| Republic of the Congo || || 5 || ||
|-
| Côte d'Ivoire || 1953 || 9 || ||
|-
| Djibouti || || 3 || ||
|-
| Egypt || 1983 || 5 || 4,353 || 4.3%
|-
| Equatorial Guinea || || 3 || ||
|-
| Eritrea || || 2 || ||
|-
| Eswatini || 1967 || 1 || 300 || 1.74%
|-
| Ethiopia || 1959 || 22 || ||
|-
| Gabon || 2002 || 13 || 26,766 || 10.0%
|-
| Gambia || 1978 || 5 || 169.9 || 1.5%
|-
| Ghana || 1971 || 7 || ||
|-
| Guinea || || 3 || ||
|-
| Guinea-Bissau || || 6 || ||
|-
| Kenya || 1946 || 24 || ||
|-
| Lesotho || || 2 || ||
|-
| Liberia || || 8 || ||
|-
| Libya || || 6 || ||
|-
| Madagascar || 1958 || 26 || 14,327 || 2.4%
|-
| Malawi || 1966 || 6 || ||
|-
| Mali || || 4 || ||
|-
| Mauritania || || 2 || ||
|-
| Mauritius || 1994 || 3 || 7,160 || 3.5%
|-
| Morocco || 1942 || 12 || ||
|-
| Mozambique || 1960 || 7 || 40,970 || 5.1%
|-
| Namibia || || 20 || 10,878 || 13.2%
|-
| Niger || 1954 || 1 || ||
|-
| Nigeria || 1979 || 8 || 20,156 || 3.0%
|-
| Rwanda || || 3 || ||
|-
| Sao Tome and Principe || || 1 || ||
|-
| Senegal || || 6 || ||
|-
| Seychelles || 1973 || 9 || ||
|-
| Sierra Leone || 1986 || 8 || ||
|-
| Somalia || || 6 || ||
|-
| South Africa || 1926 || 21 || 37,000 || 3%
|-
| South Sudan || || 6 || ||
|-
| Sudan || || 4 || ||
|-
| Tanzania || 1951 || 23 || 99,306.5 ||
|-
| Togo || || 3 || ||
|-
| Tunisia || 1980 || 17 || ||
|-
| Uganda || 1952 || 10 || ||
|-
| Zambia || || 28 ||240,836.48 ||32%
|-
| Zimbabwe || || 11 || ||
|}
Asia
thumb|[[Band-e Amir National Park|Lake Band-e-Amir the national park of Afghanistan.]]
thumb|[[Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttarakhand, India]]
thumb|[[Baltoro Glacier in Central Karakoram National Park, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan]]
thumb|View of [[Cappadocia landscape in Turkey]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Oldest<br />(year) !! Number<br />of parks !! Total area<br /> km<sup>2</sup> !! Percentage <br />of country
|-
| Afghanistan || 2009 || 2 || 11,516.28 ||
|-
| Armenia || 1978 || 4 || 1,176 ||
|-
| Azerbaijan || 2003 || 11 || ||
|-
| Bangladesh || || 18 || ||
|-
| Bhutan || || 5 || 8,008 || 20.8%
|-
| Brunei || || 2 || ||
|-
| Cambodia || 1993 || 13 || 7,422.5 || 4.1%
|-
| China|| 916 || 8 || ||
|-
| Georgia || || 11 || ||
|-
| India || 1936 || 116 || 38,136 || 1.16%
|-
| Indonesia || 1980 || 56 || 160,520 || 8.43%
|-
| Iran || 1974|| 23|| 19,757||1.2%
|-
| Iraq || || 2 || ||
|-
| Israel
| 1964 || 49 || 6,400 || 30%
|-
| Japan || 1934 || 34 || 20,482 || 5.4%
|-
| Jordan || || || ||
|-
| Kazakhstan || 1985 || 13 || 18,876 || 0.7%
|-
| Kyrgyzstan ||1976 ||13 || 7,246.7 ||3.625%
|-
| Lebanon || || 4 || ||
|-
|Maldives || || || ||
|-
| Malaysia || || 29 || ||
|-
| Mongolia || 1783|| 29 || ||
|-
| Myanmar || 1982 || 9 || 10,351 || 1.5%
|-
| Nepal ||1973
| 12 ||34,426
|23.39%
|-
| North Korea || || 9 || ||
|-
| Oman || 1997 || 1 || 220 || 0.07%
|-
| Pakistan || 1972 || 26 ||132,919.71
|6.63%
|-
| Philippines || 1933 || 36 || 1,820 || 0.6%
|-
| Qatar || || || ||
|-
| Russia || 1983 || 64 || 155,672 ||
|-
| Saudi Arabia || || 3 || ||
|-
| South Korea || 1967 || 22 || 6,726 || 6.70%
|-
| Sri Lanka || 1938 || 26 || ||
|-
| Republic of China (Taiwan) || 1984 || 9 || 3,104 || 8.6%
|-
| Tajikistan || 1992 || 1 || 26,000 || 18%
|-
| Timor-Leste || 2007 || 1 || 1,236 || 8.27%
|-
| Thailand || 1961 || 156 || 61,413 || 11.96%
|-
| Turkey || 1958 || 43 || 8,481 ||1%
|-
| United Arab Emirates || || 4 || ||
|-
| Uzbekistan || || 4 || ||
|-
| Vietnam || 1962 || 32 || ||
|-
| Yemen || || 2 || ||
|}
Europe
right|thumb|[[Rondane National Park, Norway]]
right|thumb|A [[wisent in the Białowieża Forest, Poland]]
right|thumb|A Welsh Mountain Pony in the [[Brecon Beacons National Park (Bannau Brycheiniog), United Kingdom]]
right|thumb|A [[sunset over the lakes in the Mljet National Park in Croatia]]
thumb|[[Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park|Borjomi National Park, Georgia]]
right|thumb|[[Popradské pleso in Tatra National Park, Slovakia.]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Oldest<br />(year) !! Number<br />of parks !! Total area<br /> km<sup>2</sup> !! Percentage <br />of country
|-
| Albania || 1966 || 14 || 2,106.68 || 6.7%
|-
| Austria || 1981 || 6 || 2,521 || 3.0%
|-
| Belarus || 1939 || 4 || 2,222 || 1.0%
|-
| Belgium || 2001 || 6 || 638.71 || 2.1%
|-
| Bosnia and Herzegovina || 1965 || 4 || 473 || 0.9%
|-
| Bulgaria || 1963 || 3 || 1,930 || 1.8%
|-
| Croatia || 1949 || 8 || 994 || 1.8%
|-
| Czech Republic || 1963 || 4 || 1,190 || 1.5%
|-
| Denmark || 2008 || 5 || 2,322 || 5.4%
|-
| Estonia || 1971 || 6 || 2,370 || 5.2%
|-
| Finland || 1956 || 40 || 9,892|| 2.9%
|-
| France || 1963 || 11
|| 60,728|| 9.5%
|-
| Georgia || 1946 || 11 || 5,111 || 7.0%
|-
| Germany || 1970 || 16 || 10,395 || 2.7%
|-
| Greece || 1938 || 15 || 6,960 || 3.6%
|-
| Hungary || 1972 || 10 || 4,819 || 5.2%
|-
| Iceland || 1928 || 3 || 12,407 || 12.1%
|-
| Ireland || 1932 || 6 || 650 || 0.9%
|-
| Italy || 1922 || 25 || 15,000 || 5.0%
|-
| Kosovo || 1986 || 2 || 1,014.88 || 9.3%
|-
| Latvia || 1973 || 4 || 2,065 || 3.2%
|-
| Lithuania || 1974 || 5 || 1,554 || 2.4%
|-
| Malta || 2007|| 1 || 2.5 || 0.69%
|-
|Moldova
|2013
|1
|337
|1%
|-
| Montenegro || 1952 || 5 || 1,096 || 7.9%
|-
| Netherlands || 1930 || 21 || 1,251 || 3.0%
|-
| North Macedonia || 1948 || 3 || 974 || 3.8%
|-
| Norway || 1962 || 47 || 24,060 || 6.3%
|-
| Poland || 1932 || 23 || 3,149 || 1.0%
|-
| Portugal || 1971 || 1 || 702 || 0.8%
|-
| Romania || 1935 || 14 || 3,158 || 1.3%
|-
| Russia || 1983 || 48 || 141,200 || 0.82%
|-
| Serbia || 1960 || 7 || 1,936 || 2.19%
|-
| Slovakia || 1949 || 9 || 3,690 || 7.5%
|-
| Slovenia || 1961 || 1 || 838 || 4.1%
|-
| Spain || 1918 || 16 ||3,845|| 0.8%
|-
| Sweden || 1909 || 30 || 7,199 || 1.6%
|-
| Switzerland || 1914 || 1 || 170 || 0.4%
|-
| Turkey || 1958 || 50 || 9,288 ||1.0%
|-
| Ukraine || 1980 || 48 || 7,020 || 1.2%
|-
| United Kingdom || 1951 || 15 || 19,989 || 8.2%
|}
; Links to lists of national parks by region
- the Alps
- the Baltics
- England and Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
North and Central America
right|thumb|[[Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the United States is the most visited national park in the world.]]
thumb|[[Auyuittuq National Park, Canada]]
thumb|[[Basaseachic Falls National Park, Mexico]]
thumb|[[Half Dome at Yosemite National Park, United States]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Oldest<br />(year) !! Number<br />of parks !! Total area<br /> km<sup>2</sup> !! Percentage <br />of country
|-
| Antigua and Barbuda || || 6 || ||
|-
| Aruba || || 1 || ||
|-
| Bahamas || || 40 || ||
|-
| Barbados || || 1 || ||
|-
| Belize || 1986 || 18 || 1,701 || 7.4%
|-
| British Virgin Islands || || 14 || ||
|-
| Canada || 1885 || 47 || 377,000 || 3.78%
|-
| Costa Rica || 1955 || 29 || 12,913 || 25.1%
|-
| Cuba || || 14 || ||
|-
| Curacao || 1978 || 2 || 20.8 || 4.68%
|-
| Dominica || 1975 || 3 || 107 || 7.01%
|-
| Dominican Republic || 1956 || 29 || ||
|-
| El Salvador || || 8 || ||
|-
| Grenada || || 3 || ||
|-
| Guatemala || 1955 || 22 || ||
|-
| Haiti || 1983 || 16 || 88 || 0.31%
|-
| Honduras || || 18 || ||
|-
| Jamaica || || 1 || ||
|-
| Mexico || 1917 || 67 || 14,320 || 0.73%
|-
| Nicaragua || 1979 || 3 || 25,327 || 17.3%
|-
| Panama || 1966 || 16 ||12,520||16.57%
|-
| Saint Kitts & Nevis || || 5 || ||
|-
| Saint Lucia || || 2 || ||
|-
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines || || 1 || ||
|-
| Trinidad & Tobago || || 1 || ||
|-
| Turks and Caicos Islands || || 11 || ||
|-
| United States (excluding territories) || 1872 || 61 || 210,000 || 2.19%
|-
| US Virgin Islands|| || 1 || ||
|-
|}
South America
thumb|[[Iguazu Falls, is located on both Iguazú National Park, Argentina, and Iguaçu National Park, Brazil it is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Oldest<br />(year) !! Number<br />of parks !! Total area<br /> km<sup>2</sup> !! Percentage <br />of country
|-
| Argentina|| 1922 || 37 || 38,452 || 1.38%
|-
| Bolivia || 1939 || 13 || 65,910 || 6%
|-
| Brazil|| 1937 || 75 || 250,000 || 2.968%
|-
| Chile || 1926 || 46 || 146,046 || 21%
|-
| Colombia || 1960 || 60 || 169,545 || 12.5%
|-
| Ecuador || 1959 || 12 || 34,733 || 12.2%
|-
| Guyana || 1929 || 1 || ||
|-
| Paraguay || 1948 || 15 || 60,662 || 14.9%
|-
| Peru || 1961 || 15 || 79,665 || 6.2%
|-
| Uruguay || 1937 || 7 || ||
|-%
| Venezuela || 1937 || 46 || 199,418 || 21.76%
|}
:<small>French Guiana: see France</small>
Oceania
thumb|[[The Twelve Apostles (Victoria)|Twelve Apostles in Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia.]]
thumb|The [[Hooker Valley Track in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand.]].
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Oldest<br />(year) !! Number<br />of parks !! Total area<br /> km<sup>2</sup> !! Percentage <br />of country
|-
| American Samoa || || 1 || ||
|-
| Australia || 1879 || 685 || 335,062 || 4.36%
|-
| Cook Islands|| || 1 || ||
|-
| Fiji|| 1987 || 1 || ||
|-
| New Zealand || 1887 || 13 || 28,873 || 10.8%
|-
| Papua New Guinea || || 8 || ||
|-
| Samoa || || 5 || ||
|-
| Solomon Islands|| || 1 || ||
|-
| Tonga || 1992 || 4 || ||
|}
:<small>Hawaii: see United States</small>
:<small>Easter Island: see Chile</small>
See also
- List of tourist attractions
- Nature reserve